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Hiring Freelancers: How To Avoid Legal Pitfalls and Grow Your Business While Focusing on Being Creative
Do you want that freelancer you hired online to suddenly be able to claim ownership over your business’s intellectual property? If you’re like most business owners, the answer to that is a hard no. To...
Go From Creator to Founder: Build Systems and Structures That Set You Free
If you spend more time on emails and invoices than on creative work, your business is running you—let’s fix that. Most creatives launch their businesses with passion and talent but quickly get overwhelmed by contracts,...
The California Freelance Worker Protection Act: How Businesses and Freelancers Can Use It To Collaborate Powerfully
California’s Freelance Worker Protection Act (FWPA) empowers businesses and freelancers to collaborate better. For years, we’ve worked with freelancers and the businesses that hire them and seen how the old way of working led to...
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California Automatic Renewal Law Could Make You Give All Your Money Back To Your Customers
Imagine this: you have built a successful business based on subscriptions (like many startups and business), but now you are sued under the California automatic renewal law. Never heard of it? You’re not alone, and it’s a killer. Among other penalties, you could be...
Copyright Protection for Useful Articles
Many creative businesses seek copyright protection for useful articles. By “useful articles”, we are talking about things like: clothes, furniture, candlesticks, baseball bats, blenders, doors, etc. But people are often dismayed to find out that useful articles are...
Patent License Agreements: Why and How
It’s not unlikely that an inventor will eventually come across the topic of patent license agreements. Patent license agreements are commonly used to help develop and commercialize patented items and can be a great source of revenue for the patent owner, spurring...
Startups and Lawsuits
Venture capitalist Mark Suster recently wrote a great post on startups and lawsuits (and the logic can apply to businesses that aren’t traditionally considered “startups”) and since thrust of his post seems to be about how to keep startups out of court, I wanted to...
